Chris Vitiello on things he is done with

This post on Chris Vitiello's blog warmed my heart (found by way of K. Silem Mohammad's {limetree}).

I want to make the most ugly poems. I want the surface to give no pleasure.

For wordplay, I burrow into the dictionary and the books of etymology and synonyms. For soundplay I cover my ears, open my eyes really wide, and consecutively think.